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About:Rogier Arents is a designer and graphic artist based in Rotterdam. Driven by great curiosity Arents creates visualizations, designs, installations and prints for cultural institutions, universities and galleries. Through interdisciplinary collaboration he seeks artistic ways to transfer knowledge and embed newly-developed technologies within society.

Internships:Internship places available for students of design and creative coding, please send your CV and motivation by e-mail.

Special thanks to:Yu-tzu Huang, Lucile Queriaud

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Biography:Rogier Arents (Gouda/NL, 1987) is a designer and graphic artist based in Rotterdam. In his childhood Arents' interest was in sports, games and creative practises. In 2004 he graduated from secondary school with a programme focussed on nature and health. He attended the Technical University of Delft where he found his interest in design, but he felt a need for a more artistic approach and continued his education at the Design Academy in Eindhoven. In 2012 he graduated from the Man & Well Being Department and started his own design studio.

Statement:Arents is fascinated by the transfer of knowledge and the meaning of the image within scientific disciplines. Working across a wide range of media including graphic art, design and interactive installation, Arents aims to bridge the gap between science and the public. He has developed a variety of projects where scientific knowledge is translated into a visual language that is more accessible to the public. For example, the project Secret Signals: a short movie that uses machine-made drawings to illustrate the discovery of a plant defense system by the Botany department at UvA.

Currently Arents is developing innovative methods of visualization by applying graphic and interactive research methods to analogue and digital techniques. He enriches his research by collaborating with nature- and computer scientists. These collaborations result in projects like Heart Calligraphy, in which new biometric technologies are merged with traditional Chinese calligraphy to create abstract portraits depicting subconscious processes of the human body.